Category Archives: Apple

US prosecutors have pointed the finger at Apple as the ringleader in alleged price-fixing in the electronic book market. The comments come in a court memo ahead of a scheduled trial next month. The long-running saga is based around two rival pricing structures. Traditionally printed books involve the publisher setting a wholesale price and then […]

To make one faulty iPhone is unfortunate. To make eight million faulty iPhones would appear to be somewhere beyond careless. Insiders at controversial component manufacturer Foxconn are reported to have said the firm will pay a heavy price after Apple rejected of batch of between five and eight million iPhones (and what’s three million handsets […]

Epic 10,000 iPhone 5 Domino showcases 10,000 iPhones (that’s right TEN THOUSAND iPhones) falling neatly in patterns. These CG iPhones’ feature NFC (Near Field Communications) concept that enable content to be passed on from one iPhone screen to another. This iPhone video is imagined as an advertisement for the iPhone 5 concept feature of NFC. […]

Editor’s note: Be sure to read my note at the end of the post. On Friday, cellular carrier T-Mobile released the widely anticipated iPhone 5 to their customers. Until this point, if you wanted to own an Apple phone and use it with T-Mobile, you would have to purchase it directly from Apple or a […]

Apple has fallen victim to a particular ironic scam in China. The same warranty program loophole that the company exploited until being exposed by a state-run TV program has now been mirrored by a creative money-grabbing scheme by staff an at electrical store. Once a year, Chinese state TV airs a high-profile consumer rights show. […]

The Drug Enforcement Agency has told staff that it can’t find a way to beat the encryption used in Apple’s iMessage system. Even if it could decrypt the messages, a legal loophole might make it problematic. The revelation comes in an internal DEA intelligence note leaked to CNET. It notes that even with a federal […]

A government lawyer suggests the next two models of iPhone could both be the work of Steve Jobs. The tidbit leaked out in an article in the San Francisco Examiner about physical security in the smartphone world. It profiled the troubles district attorney George Gascon has faced in his efforts to get manufacturers and service […]

There’s no doubt that anyone looking at the Apple vs Samsung court room battles would easily be confused. Unfortunately Apple reckons that includes the judge in the case, Lucy Koh, and says her mix-up made about $85 million worth of difference. It’s part of a complex series of legal judgements that has also led to […]

A Canadian specialist in infectious diseases says he found some success in using a modified iPhone to diagnose worm infections in Tanzanian children. But Dr Isaac Bogoch says the results aren’t quite reliable enough yet. The main way to diagnose worms is to examine stool samples for eggs. They are around 40 to 60 micrometers […]

Leaked prototype photos show that at one stage the iPhone was planned to be the size of the iPad mini and a much squarer shape. It would also have been a pocket-challenging almost two inches thick. The pictures were provided to ArsTechnica by a former Apple staffer and date back to 2005. That makes them […]